Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.

It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.